It's a tradition for the year to round off with special collaborations, and beauty brands have invited young contemporary artists to dress up their bestsellers for the holiday season.
Based in New York City, Kiehl's approached transatlantic graphic design duo Craig Redman and Karl Maier for the sixth limited edition label.
Natives of Australia, the two met at Queensland College of Art, where they began to collaborate on projects. Their partnership continued after their graduation, making a name for themselves as Craig & Karl in the art world.
In their mid-30s, Redman lives in New York City and Maier in London, but that doesn't pose a problem in creating bold works that convey simple, often humorous messages. Craig & Karl's colourful artwork for Kiehl's appears on cult products, box sets and in window displays, promoting a festive ambience.
Luxury skincare brand Biotherm has involved talented illustrator and textile designer Sanna Annukka, known for her retro designs that combine folklore with a Scandinavian edge.
In graphic, curling waves, the ocean is represented by the Anglo-Finnish artist on packaging of Aquasource moisturisers and Lait Corporel body milk, sales of which will help finance Mission Blue's survey into the effects of global warming on polar bears and the Arctic ecosystem.
To date, the French cosmetic brand has raised €350,000 (14 million baht) for Mission Blue, whose goal is to increase marine protected areas, defined as Hope Spots, to 20% by 2020. This includes preserving the Central Arctic Ocean, or Arctic Donut Hole, the last un-fished high sea enclave long protected by ice and remoteness but today at increasing risk from climate change.
Japanese skincare brand SK-II's artistic collaboration has flowers blooming on bottles of Facial Treatment Essence, designed by Taiwanese artist Po-Chih Huang.
He began his career focusing was on paintings and graffiti before moving on to employing digital technology for the majority of his work.
The SK-II project took Po-Chih over four months and involved more than 10,000 scanned image files to finalise the digital compositions of red tulips, yellow freesia, purple hydrangea and green cypress.
